CHILDHOOD STUDIES '17 / International Interdisciplinary Conference on Children and Childhood

CHILDHOOD STUDIES '17 / International Interdisciplinary Conference on Children and Childhood will be held at Nippon Meeting Halls in Istanbul. The conference is coordinated by DAKAM (Eastern Mediterranean Academic Research Center) and will be organized by BILSAS (Science, Art, Sport Productions).

The event will be held together along with GENDER AND WOMEN'S STUDIES '17 / II. International Interdisciplinary Conference on Gender and Women's Studies and MINORITY STUDIES '17 / International Interdisciplinary Conference on Minorities. Participants will be able to attend any of the sessions of these conferences.

All abstracts are going to be selected according to double blind reviews and accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings E-Book with an ISBN number that will be given to you in a DVD box during conference registration.

We invite you to join us at the event in Istanbul and would like to emphasize that proposals from different parts of the world are welcomed.

THEMES

• Beauty in Art Theory: Understanding of Beauty by Artists and Critics 

• Philosophy and Aesthetics: Definitions of Beauty and Ugliness by Philosophers

• Beauty of the Art Work and Depiction of Beautiful in Visual Arts, Music and Film

• Beauty and Ugliness in Literature and Poetry

• Art Movements

• Beauty through Ages and in Different Societies

• Cultural Discourse and Relativity

• Design, Functionalism and Beauty

• Machine-Age and Beauty

• Cosmetics and Fashion

• Plastic Surgery and Weight Issues in Modern Society

• Body in Public and Private Life

• Sex and Eroticism

• Adornment

• Understanding of Beauty in Popular Culture

• Relation to the Concepts of Good and Truth

• Religion and Sacred

• Mythology and Fairy Tales

• Ideology and Politics of Beatiful

• Racism, Beauty and the Concept of Ideal

• Hatred and the Ugly

• Beauty as a Visual Composition 

• Beauty as a Value

• Beauty, Human Behavior and Character

• ‘The Beauty of Ugliness’ and Boundaries of the Concepts

• Ugliness, Anomalies and Otherness

• Psychology and Psychiatry

• Darwinian Theories and Biology

• Nature and environment

• Branding, Marketing, Advertising

• Education, Children and Youth

• Communication and Media

DRAFT PROGRAM

DAY 1
9:00 Registration
9:30 Opening Session

9:45 Keynote Lecture 1
10:15 Coffee Break

10:30 Keynote Lecture 2
11:00 Coffee Break

11:15 Session 1 & 2 & 3
12:15 Discussion

12:30 Lunch

 

13:30 Session 4 & 5 & 6
14:30 Discussion 
14:45 Coffee Break

15:00 Session 7 & 8 & 9
16:00 Discussion
16:15 Coffee Break

16:30 Session 10 & 11 & 12
17:30 Discussion
16:15 Coffee Break

17:45 Closing Remarks

DAY 2
Historical City Tour & Social Events

All papers will be published in proceedings e-book as DVD (with an ISBN number) and then in DAKAM's online library. A selection will be made in the relevant DAKAM journal that will be reviewed by Thomson&Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index